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I rise in opposition to the committee funding resolution. Funding resolutions used to be worked out with compromise and trust. However, these two qualities have deteriorated more and more with the passage of time. After 3 years on this…
I am pleased to file an amendment to the Marine Mammal Protection Act to improve the administration of the act as it relates to zoos, aquariums, and scientific research institutions. This amendment has broad bipartisan support from all…
I rise in support of S. 4, the National Competitiveness Act of 1994. I am proud to be a co-sponsor of this vitally important bill, which will renew our manufacturing base, promote American competitiveness in the global marketplace, and…
what the amendment really does, Mr. Chairman, and I have not had an opportunity to speak; I have spoken earlier, but I have not had an opportunity speak directly to the Owens-Ford amendment, and I simply want to briefly say that what the…
There are no guarantees under this amendment for DARE. As a matter of fact, this is an additional $100 million to be appropriated in addition to the $361 million. There is no guarantee of their funds.
I come today to discuss briefly the health care debate. The Republican Members of this body are having a retreat. I think those of us on the other side of the aisle need to listen very carefully when they come back from their retreat as to…
I share, as I suspect everybody in the Midwest does, his concern for rising crime, particularly rising adolescent crime. I also point out that much of the dilemma that we are going to face in law enforcement... is with reference to the…
the amendment I am offering today is intended to correct an important flaw in the new approach to distributing chapter 1 funds that is provided for in H.R. 6, the elementary and secondary education amendments. The administration has…
I rise in opposition to H.R. 6, a bill that, as currently drafted, is an attempt to federalize the delivery of education in America. H.R. 6 mandates that local schools meet yet-to-be developed opportunity to learn standards [OTLS]. The…
I rise today in strong support of the Safe Schools Act to provide grants to schools to establish programs to prevent violence in our schools. It encourages the various agencies and groups involved in crime and education to work together to…
I say again that voting against this motion to table is the right vote. Those who want to cut defense can vote for the amendment of the Senator from Oregon. And there are some in this body who might think that that is an appropriate thing…
I call my colleagues' attention to the fact that this is a good faith effort that began last year during the budget reconciliation debate. Those of us who voted for it can now call attention to the significant deficit reduction that has…
But does the Senator believe that 11 to 18 Members who have worked since last August to prepare this amendment, hundreds of hours in meetings in good faith, trying to come to an agreement, not with any effort to hide from anyone what we…
I appreciate very much the Senator's steadfast support of the effort to say we have to reduce spending because we believe it will be good for the economy. We believe it will give Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve some room to move. We…
I will be offering an amendment to title III of H.R 3759--the rescission title--on behalf of myself and Senators Bumpers, Leahy, Bradley, Lautenberg, Wofford, and Feingold. Our amendment, on which we have worked over a number of months…
I say to the Senator, indeed the double accounting problem is one we footnoted. The Senator from Colorado dealt with that earlier. We included it only because it has not been enacted into law. We were not trying to hide anything from…
I must say, as I said earlier, I am not standing over here full of optimism that this amendment is going to be agreed to. It is highly unlikely it is going to be agreed to. There are all kinds of procedural problems and so forth going to…
Proposal 26: Recapture Federal construction project funds from projects which have not commenced within 24 months of appropriations. Any funds appropriated for a Federal construction project that have not been obligated through a binding…